New Design Build Best Practices Guide

The Design Build Institute of America has a new "Best Practices Guide" for design-build procurement, contracting, and implementation.  They are seeking comments through November 15, 2013.

Submit any comments to BestPractices@DBIA.org.

The Practice guide provides bullet point guidance on:

I.   Procurement:

1. Assessing unique program characteristics
2. Implementing a procurement plan to enhance collaboration
3. Fair, open and transparent processes for competitive procurement. 

II.  Contracting:

1. Fair, balanced, and clear contracts
2. Spelling out of expected standards 
3. Addressing each party's performance at each stage

III.  Implementation:

1. Educating all participants about the process
2. Establishing logistics and processes for integrated project delivery
3. Effective communication, collaboration, issue resolution
4. Design management processes and alignment of teams

Take a look at the guide and help make it the best it can be by submitting your comments.